PostgreSQL Administration Training
Delivery Options
- Customized Onsite Training (5 days): Request a Proposal
Class Description
Class Overview
Students taking this PostgreSQL training class will learn to effectively administer PostgreSQL .
Class Goals
- Learn to compile source code.
- Learn about backup and disaster recovery.
- Learn about inheritance, partitioning, and Tablespaces.
- Learn to manage free space.
- Learn about security in PostgreSQL.
- Learn to create high availabilty and high performance solutions.
Class Outline
- Source Code Compile
- Understanding the configure switches
- Compiling contrib modules
- Compiling and installing 3rd party procedural languages
- Java
- Ruby
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- pg_dump
- pg_dumpall
- pg_restore
- PITR
- DRDB
- Backup Strategies
- Inheritance, Partitioning and Tablespaces
- Using Inheritance
- Partitioning Types
- Range
- List
- Hash
- Composite
- Administrating Partitions
- Administrating Tablespaces
- Best Practices
- Managing Free Space
- SQL commands
- VACUUM
- CLUSTER
- REINDEX
- autovacuum
- Tuning free space map settings, postgresql.conf
- SQL commands
- Security
- Roles
- Testing password strength
- Restricting access on the localhost using UNIX DOMAIN SOCKETS
- Encrypted Sessions
- SSH tunnels using port forwarding
- SSL
- Athenticated Sessions
- IDENT
- LDAP
- KERBEROS
- PAM
- SSL certficates
- Encrypting Data In The Database
- The md5 function
- The chkpass contrib module
- The pgcrypto contrib module
- High Availability & High Performance Solutions
- dblink
- pgmemcache
- SLONY
- PGPOOL
- Performance
- basics
- Understanding the EXPLAIN statement
- Monitoring
- UNIX utilities: iostat, vmstat, sar, systat
- PostgrSQL runtime statistics, pg_stat views and tables, using psql and pgadmin
- Tuning
- Identifying operations to tune bulk loading operations DML operations DDL operations
- Editing postgresql.conf
- Configuring kernel parameters at runtime using sysctl
- Best Practices
- Server startup paramaters & options (pg_ctl)
- Benchmarking with pgbench
- Working with indexes
- Definition
- Expression
- Partial
- Simplifying tuning by crafting user roles
- SQL statements of interest
- SHOW
- SET CONSTRAINTS (setting user/role parameters)
- SET ROLE / ALTER ROLE
- SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
- SQL statements of interest
- Scripting performance analysis
- basics
Class Materials
All students receive a course manual or book and all the class examples.
Students in private onsite classes will also receive:
- PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume II. Server Administration
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following areas is required:
- Familiarity with databases.
Technical Requirements
Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.
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